{"id":26269,"date":"2012-10-29T02:03:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T02:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26269"},"modified":"2012-10-29T02:05:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T02:05:44","slug":"scholars-fix-gaze-on-changing-racial-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26269","title":{"rendered":"Scholars fix gaze on changing racial landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scholars fix gaze on changing racial landscape<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Chicago Tribune<\/a>
\n2012-10-29<\/p>\n

Dawn Turner Trice<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Laura Kina<\/a>, 39, is half Asian-American and half white. Her husband is Jewish, and her stepdaughter is half Hispanic. Her family, including her fair-skinned, blue-eyed biological daughter, lives near Devon Avenue in the heart of Chicago’s Indian and Pakistani community.<\/p>\n

Kina, who’s a DePaul University associate professor of art, media and design, views her life as a vibrant collage of culture, religion and race, pieced together by chance and choice.<\/p>\n

“I grew up in the ‘Sesame Street’ generation,” she said. “This is just my normal.”<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Kina and DePaul professor Camilla Fojas<\/a> will begin a four-day conference on campus<\/a> that explores the emerging academic field of critical mixed-race studies. Hundreds of scholars and artists from around the country and globe are expected to participate in research presentations, spoken-word performances and discussions.<\/p>\n

Kina and Fojas, who hosted a similar conference in 2010, hope to cover an array of topics on identity, discrimination and racial “passing<\/a>.” Additionally, panels will tackle issues such as the role of the mixed-race person as exotic “everyman” in advertising and film, and the impact of President Barack Obama<\/a> and Tiger Woods<\/a>, among others, as biracial icons…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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